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Slideshow "Looper", Kristen Stewart in focus as Toronto opens Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Redford acts in, directs thriller about ex-radical 1:24pm EDT Selena Gomez gets raunchy in "shocking" new movie Wed, Sep 5 2012 Stars, politics set to stir up Toronto film festival Wed, Sep 5 2012 Food vies with films for spotlight at Toronto film festival Wed, Sep 5 2012 Fledgling Venice film market has buzz but few deals Tue, Sep 4 2012 Analysis & Opinion Nepal celebrates popular Gai Jatra festival to lead the dead to heaven Gangs of Wasseypur 2: The perfect ending Related Topics Entertainment » Fashion » Film » By Christine Kearney TORONTO | Thu Sep 6, 2012 5:44pm EDT TORONTO (Reuters) - Action movie "Looper" with Joseph Gordon-Levitt opens the Toronto film festival on Thursday, but "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart is expected to attract the biggest buzz on the red carpet in a star-studded festival scattered with Oscar hopefuls. Anticipation was high for one of the world's premier film festivals that coming off Venice marks the beginning of Hollywood's awards season. Filmmakers see it as crucial launching pad and Toronto has previously propelled such films as "The King's Speech" to go on to success at the Academy Awards. Top stars due to appear include Ben Affleck, Selena Gomez, Halle Berry, Tom Hanks and rapper-turned reggae wannabe Snoop Dogg, now known as Snoop Lion. Kristen Stewart was due to hit the red carpet Thursday in her first appearance since admitting to cheating on "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson. At the same time, "Looper," a sci-fi time travel thriller directed by Rian Johnson and featuring Gordon Levitt and Bruce Willis in a futuristic story about a time-traveling assassin assigned to kill his future self, will officially kick off the 11-day festival that will screen more than 280 films. The US-China co-production is not one of the films being keenly watched by Oscar observers, but was chosen as the opening film due to its star power and possible broad entertainment appeal, said festival organizers. Johnson told reporters Thursday he hoped the film's combination of action and emotional pull would eventually draw viewers from Canada to China with a model "more like the first 'Terminator', just in terms of time travel setting up a situation." "CLOUD ATLAS" Asked if there were concerns about violence in "Looper" and the wider movie world coming off the Colorado movie house massacre where during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in July a gunman killed 12 people, Willis defended violence in the movies as a part of their integral, emotional pull. "Violence is one of the hard, bad things that exist in the world, it's not just in films, it exists anywhere," he said. "And to pick one thing out and say 'Well, you shouldn't have violence in films or you shouldn't make violence a part of a film, would be like taking the emotion out of it." The movie's themes also prompted questions for the two stars about time travel and what they might change in the past. Gordon-Levitt he would like to see the future -- "I consider myself an optimist" - while Willis reflected: "I would remind myself every couple of minutes not to take myself seriously." By Friday, the festival will quickly turn toward some of the more anticipated films already gaining Oscar buzz, including Friday's premiere of Ben Affleck's "Argo," based on the story of how the CIA smuggled six Americans under the cover of a Hollywood production during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Also competing for critics and audience attention will be Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," David O. 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